BEIJING. John Isner ousts Monfils in the 1st round of the China Open

John Isner wins against Gael Monfils 6-4 6-7⁵ 6-3 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Tuesday. Isner will seek to keep on going in this event against Daniel Evans in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Isner had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Monfils in the 1^st game (1-0). That was sufficient for Isner to win the set (6-4) since there were no other breaks anymore.

2^nd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Gael conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (7-6).

3^rd set.

Similarly to the 2^nd set, the set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that John conquered in the 8^th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the American scored 111 points vs. the French Player’s 97 points.

John served very well to win 78% of the points (58/74) behind his first serve, and he won 62% points (13/21) on his second serve. John fired 22 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Isner won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 18% (2/11). On the other side, the French Player wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Isner and Monfils is 5-7 for Gael.

Next Match: John Isner vs. Daniel Evans – stats

Isner will face Evans in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that John Isner and Daniel Evans face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Evans (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Evans won 3-6 6-2 6-3 in the semifinal in Delray Beach back in February 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• John IsnerIsner – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-6² 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Dusan LajovicLajovic (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-6² 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Guido PellaPella (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-4 4-6 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 3-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-7⁷ 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Christian GarinGarin (7-6⁵ 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-2 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Zhe LiLi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-2) – See H2H details
• John IsnerIsner – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-4) – See H2H details
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-1) – See H2H details